Semi-coupled air/water immersed boundary approach for curvilinear dynamic overset grids with application to ship hydrodynamics

• Published in: International journal for numerical methods in fluids Vol. 58; no. 6; pp. 591 - 624
• Main Authors: Huang, Juntao, Carrica, Pablo M., Stern, Frederick
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 30.10.2008; Wiley
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Computational methods in fluid dynamics; curvilinear and dynamic overset grids; Exact sciences and technology; Fluid dynamics; free surface flows; Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications); Ground, air and sea transportation, marine construction; immersed boundary; level set method; Marine construction; Physics; semi-coupled method; ship hydrodynamics; Computational fluid dynamics; ship hydrodynamics; Computation code; Hydrodynamics; Air water interface; Modeling; Curvilinear coordinate; immersed boundary; curvilinear and dynamic overset grids; Parallel processing; Free surface flow; Numerical simulation; level set method; Shipbuilding; Ship; free surface flows; Mesh generation; semi-coupled method

For many problems in ship hydrodynamics, the effects of air flow on the water flow are negligible (the frequently called free surface conditions), but the air flow around the ship is still of interest. A method is presented where the water flow is decoupled from the air solution, but the air flow us...